In case you missed it, a few days ago I posted a rather mysterious entry with little more than some Lorem Ipsum text and a hidden cipher. Clicking on the icon took you to a page on which a few scrabble tiles lay. By solving the anagram puzzle you were rewarded with a new holiday stylesheet (I've made it so everyone has it now) and then presented with Purgatorium, a brand new game from Exmortis author, Ben Leffler, that was created especially for Casual Gameplay.

Purgatorium is a short and creepy point-and-click escape-the-room game with some rather horrific graphic visuals nestled inside. If you have played either of Ben's other horror-genre interactive narratives, Exmortis and Exmortis 2, then you may already know what to expect. In addition to the visual stimuli (from which you're sure to get a jump or two) there is a bit of a narrative that unfolds as well. The game is not very difficult so you shouldn't have any trouble getting through this one on your own.

My sincere thanks and appreciation go out to Benny for coming through in such short notice so that we all might enjoy something new from him this Halloween. Cheers! =)

First I just want to say to those of you who can't get the game to work...keep trying it's worth it. Second Jay i finnaly got it to work by resetting my browser settings and then redownloading the proper java add-ons (might help thsoe of you not getting in the game.) Next I would like to offer a walkthrough.

Walkthrough click at own risk of ruining the game (getting scared myb?):

Are you sure?

1. First mouse over the rocking chair to see the dead body appear

2. Then click the hamper to find the severed head and take the BBQ fork.

3. Next click in the crib to see the charred and bloody doll.

4. Click under the crib to find a small pick to use on the door.

5. Open the door then click on the outlet next to the hamper where you found the head.

6. Click on the lighted hole and enjoy :)

Oh! and anyone know what that song is...it's familiar but I can;t remeber what it's called.
P.S. Ben nice game make that rumor of EX3 in 2007 come true.

Imok - yes, I can confirm that the problem happens on Intel Macs. I am not sure if this is a bug in the universal binary version of the Flash Player or what is really causing it. I've sent a note on to Ben to see if he's doing anything odd at that point in the game. Sorry you're having trouble with it. =/

sticking the sharp thing in the electrical outlet didn't work for me, and I had already done all those other steps. I ended up just pressing the Tab key repeatedly until the missing brick lit up. So I don't even know what I actually did to get the result. :(
Then I was looking through the brick hole for a good thirty seconds before the carnival face popped up. I jumped in the air and squawked like a chicken.

Just been freaked out by Mr Leffler's latest piece of sick and twisted brilliance! Fantastic stuff, looking forward to next Ex Mortis. Found your site by accident about a month ago and have popped along for a game or two almost every day since, is very cool, cheers!

ok,sounds stupid to the rest of you,but1. i'm german and 2. i'm no scrabbler!
how on gods green earth do i get past the anagram?i assume i have to put the letters in order, so it spells out purgatorium,but as only got 1 u and 1 r,how do i do that?
i'd love to play that!
sorry for being stupid right now! ;)
thx for your help!
eumel

Do you have your sound turned up? When you move the tiles around you should notice that in certain spots they 'snap' into position and give a little 'click' sound. You'll also notice that additional tiles will appear when a tile is placed in certain positions. I hope that helps! =)

1. Rearrange the letters into the word Purgatorium. They should centre themself in the middle of the screen.
2. When the game starts, click on the plastic bin.
3. Get the fork from the severed head.
4. Click under the cot and retrieve the lock-pick.
5. Pick the lock to the door and open it.
6. Stick the fork in the socket to short the power.
7. Look through the missing brick to solve the mystery.

Read this only if you have beaten the game and are too slow to read =)
Bill Rydell

"This has got to be some kind of joke. It's a gravestone with my name on it. What is this? Am I dead? Wait... I remember a fire. My child and wife dead. Blodd on my hands. Bricking up a doorway to hide from... I... don't understand! What the hell is happening here?!?"

Newspaper

"FAMILY SLAUGHTER! Police were unable to save a woman and her 8 month old son from her mentally ill husband Bill Rydell today, as he bricked his family in to a room and proceeded to mutilate them with a variety of household tools. Authorities arrived on the scene to find the house burning uncontrollably and all three members of the family deceased. "

Hey guys, don't know how you got stuck, this game wasn't nearly as hard as Exmortis 1 and 2, but for the question about the lighter, it's on the floor in the room with the murdered children. wait till it's in your inventory, then proceed.
Here is a walkthrough for PURGATORIUM

'put mouse on rocking chair
''grab fork from head
''look at totally creepy baby in crib
''look under crib to find metal thing in left corner
''keep door open and click outlet
'click lighted brick
Click newspaper, stare for about a minute t'ill head pops up
enjoy! i didn't even JUMP! LET ALONE SCREAM.

that head @ the end was the scariest thing i ever saw!!!
Okay basically the character you play as is a man who went insane, sealed his child & wife in the child's bedroom with him using bricks. He then proceeded to decapitate the pair of them. He has woken up after fainting from the magnitude of his insanity & is going through post-traumatic illness, basically he can't remeber a thing. Snippets of his memory remain hence the hallucinations.

Boy did that ending scene scare the crap outta me. You are an exellent story teller mr. Leffler. I can't stand horror stuff because it's usually so cliche, but the stories in your games are really good. Keep up the good work.

Holy crap, you scared me so bad! I flipped the whole time and I'm still recovering (like 5 min later) and when my dad came in to talk to me I was like "oh..uh..yeah....." and I guess he didn't notice I was SCARED STIFF but I was like "OMG"

anyone got a walkthrough with no blood or guts or anything like that i am only 8 all i did was put my mouse over the rocking chair and saw the ghost without the head and switched it off. it made me jump 3 metres high in side my body and made me tingle with fright.

Omg..that was totally freaky especially at the end with the head! I don't get the baby in the crib though is that like that actual baby or a doll...wait it's a doll..but..i still don't get it!? o.o..anyway scary game..Awesome!!!

my god i almost screamed bloody murder when i ended reading the newspaper!!! i was wondering wat else i was going to do and then looked up and there that pleasant face was welcoming me....god that was so freaky but really good i loved it! i can't wait for exmortis 3 it's going to be awesome!!!!!

Great! Best short horror escape game IMO. I'm usually a chicken. (14 years old) This didn't freak me out too much so that's good, but that doesn't mean that this was a waste of time. It was a good game and I recommend it since it's moderately easy (just have to click around a bit) and slightly satisfying. Plus I can't get lost since it's only in one room and there's only 2 items. The steps make sense, it's not like you can't get through this without a walkthrough. You just have to think about it in a logical way.

It's not like, -Find the hidden password in the book by reading the first letter in each sentence and then adding the numbers based off the blah blah blah blah go all the way to the room downstairs across from the 3rd bathroom down the hall, use the wrench under the bed to crack the bed in half revealing the key, ect- LOL!

Though I think shoving a BBQ fork into an electrical socket is still a bad idea. Trapped in a creepy room with some blood+gore or not, you could get shocked or have the socket... explode or something! xD;

I was pestering my friend when she was playing by saying that at that part. Just killing the mood.

I thought the music fit perfectly. I loved it when

the music box stopped and it was quiet.

I felt extremely unsettled from that. It's depressing because now my laptop's sound is screwed up so it's mute. The music was my favorite part of the game.

The graphics were pretty good. The ending disturbed me a little.

Seriously, bricking up the exit of a burning building with your kid and wife trapped? That's a bit twisted. I kinda like these kind of games where a family member looses it thus going into a murderous frenzy and killing his/her own family in gruesome ways since those usually creep me out the most. I like the thrill and suspense, I don't enjoy people getting tortured and killed.

The plot wasn't completely original and it was short, but everything else made up for it.

I'm glad I'm a fast reader at the end. I kind of missed where

that thing that popped out since I finished reading it. I was about to close it and was looking away when I saw something pop out from the corner of my eye so I totally missed it. I don't want to play again to see it. I'm just guessing it was some monstrous freak.

The end was a tad confusing but when I thought about it, I got it. I can't think of any crit for this... I'm easily amused and I don't like ripping apart a good game just to point out bad things.

This is made by the same guy that made Exmortis 1/2 right? I went to his NG profile and was surprised when I found out that he made this too. I can kind of tell though, it's his style. I played this after Goliath the SoothSayer so no wonder the format looked familiar. I may be a chicken and won't play Exmortis anytime soon (played 2 already) but Ben, you rock at this. For serious. Totally going to play all his horror click games when I stop being a total wuss. (Meh, I'll probably do that before I reach that stage *fail*)

I am sorry, but I do have to say that was a sorry game! It didn't even make me jump! My friend thought it was going to scare me, but I don't see why! I bet some of you were screaming! Please make a better game!!

@ kathy:
Yes, you need to spell purgatorium, just move the tiles until they click.
This one was GREAT, but I shouldn't have played it on my way to bed. I didn't scream, but it sure as hell got my heart started! LOL

This game was awesome but not really scary at all. HOWEVER: Exmortis is too scary for me to finish (even though I've watched a thousand playthroughs). I've also watched playthroughs for Exmortis 2, but... I can't even start that one.
Yeah. This wasn't scary, but the other games are petrifying enough to make up for it.

Ok people. When it gets to the screen with the newspaper stuff, you won't be able to read it unless you're really fast. So just press "print screen" and then brace yourself. Then paste it later when you've gotten over the heart attack of the scary face.

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